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Cassone: The International Online Magazine of Art and Art Books is offering a free one-year subscription to all first-year students at any level (BA, MA, BSc, diploma, PhD, etc.) and in any subject. But time is running out—this offer is running only until December 31, 2012. Please pass the information below to your friends, colleagues, and students.

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CAA invites interested participants to attend its first Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp) “unconference” on digital art history, taking place on the two days immediately preceding the Annual Conference: Monday, February 11, NOON–5:00 PM, and Tuesday, February 12, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM. The event will take place at Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York, located at 35 West 67th Street in Manhattan.

CAA’s THATCamp is free and open to graduate students and scholars at all career stages. The only requirements for attendance are an active interest in how digital technology is affecting the discipline of art history and the humanities in general and a willingness to share your questions and ideas. Space is limited! Register today to secure your place. Graduate students may apply for a limited number of fellowships funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to lessen the cost of travel expenses to New York.

The purpose of the CAA unconference is manifold: to increase awareness of existing digital projects in art history, architectural history, and archeology; to foster a community of scholars invested in digital art history; to identify digital tools that may be used to improve future CAA conferences; to facilitate technology workshops and training sessions; and to provide support for art-history professionals pursuing nontraditional career paths.

“Unconference” is a term that may be new to people in art and academia but has, in fact, been around since the late 1990s. It is used to describe a participant-driven meeting that in many respects is the opposite of a traditional academic conference. Formal presentations or a set program of speakers are not determined beforehand. Unconferences generate productive encounters among diverse groups of people, an experience that can be compared to being a member of an improvisational acting troupe.

THATCamp itself, however, is a recent invention, founded in 2008 at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, as a meeting for technology and humanities professionals—including professors, librarians, and museum curators—to share ideas and collaborate on projects. The camps have since sprung up in locations across the United States and internationally.

CAA, in partnership with Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD), will present its next National Professional-Development Workshop for Artists on Saturday, November 10, 2012. The one-day event, called “Art and Entrepreneurship in the Creative Community,” will explore the necessity of entrepreneurship coexisting with creativity for those artists who strive to have their work seen and heard by a larger public.

“Art and Entrepreneurship in the Creative Community” will take place on Saturday, November 10, from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM, with a lunch break from NOON to 1:00 PM. An open-studio reception for all participants for networking and sharing is scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The sessions take place at the Canzani Centeron the CCAD campus at 60 Cleveland Avenue (at East Gay Street), Columbus, OH 43215 (map). Registration is free for all CCAD students and faculty; $35 for all other participants. Lunch is not included and can be purchased across the street at the market. A limited number of stipends are available for those who register in advance. Please contact Susan Schear, CAA national workshop project consultant, at 973-482-1000 for more information.

The workshop will begin at 8:00 AM with check-in and a complimentary continental breakfast. At 9:00 AM, Bill Strickland, president of Manchester Bidwell Corporation and recipient of the White House’s Coming Up Taller Award, will give the keynote speech, “The Economic Value of the Creative Community.“ Strickland will also address the idea of Columbus as a unique creative community by sharing his unshakable message of leadership, self-worth, and the intrinsic ability in all of us to achieve remarkable transformation in our lives. At 10:00 AM, participants may choose between two sessions to attend. In the first, “Enhancing Your Creative Studio – Life in the Studio,” Rebecca Ibel, owner of the former Rebecca Ibel Gallery and current curator for the Pizzuti Collection, will discuss the ingredients that artists need to stimulate their practice, support their work, and push their professional interest. The second, called “Enhancing Your Creative Design Practice – The New Entrepreneur,” will be led by Beverly Bethge, the founder of Ologie, a national branding agency based in Columbus. She will talk about changes in the design industry, becoming a collaborative design entrepreneur, and learning what you need to do to develop your teamwork skills and build your personal brand.

After lunch, Jonathan Politi, a lawyer based in Youngstown, Ohio, will lead a session titled “Understanding the Value of Intellectual Property,” from 1:00 to 2:30 PM. Politi will cover several fundamental issues of law as it applies to an artist’s professional practice. “Management and Leadership – Take Charge Collaboration” will be presented from 2:30 to 3:30 PM and led by Elaine Grogan Luttrull, founder of Minerva Financial Arts, a company that provides financial services to artists and arts organizations. Her session will explore the nature of collaboration from a management and leadership perspective and demonstrate that building an effective team is often the key to working creatively. The final session of the day, taking place from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, will be led by Kevin Gadd, founder of Venture Highway, an integrated online platform for teaching entrepreneurship. His presentation, “Entrepreneurship – Taking Your Creativity to Market,” will examine how different opportunities result in different organizational structures and how understanding the unique requirements of these structures can serve a variety of ideas. After the workshop, participants are invited to attend an open-studio reception from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

Registration for the workshop is first-come, first-served. Because space is limited, CAA encourages you to register in advance. To pay by credit card, debit card, or PayPal, please go to www.collegeart.org/registercolumbusworkshop. If paying by check, make it payable to College Art Association and mail to: Kevin Conlon, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Columbus College of Art and Design, 60 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215. Please include your name, complete mailing address, email, and phone number and also write “Art and Entrepreneurship Workshop” on the outside of the envelope. If paying by cash at the door, you must still register in advance by contacting Susan Schear.

Workshop Partners

Columbus College of Art and Design, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest private art and design colleges in the United States with 1,350 undergraduate and graduate students. CCAD offers bachelors and masters degrees in fine arts. Undergraduate students choose from nine majors: photography, industrial design, advertising and graphic design, animation, illustration, fine arts, fashion design, interior design, and cinematic arts.

As a leading professional organization in the visual arts, the College Art Association serves the needs and interests of 12,000 individual and 2,000 institutional members. Founded in 1911, CAA publishes two scholarly journals in art history, an online reviews journal for books and exhibitions, a weekly email newsletter, and a website with news about the organization, its members, and the larger art and academic worlds. CAA also hosts an Annual Conference for 4,000 to 6,000 artists, scholars, and students, provides career services, and advocates the visual arts on a national level.

Many of you began your CAA membership as students, so you know how important the Annual Conference is for young artists and scholars breaking into the field. From networking to interviewing to attending panels, the conference enables them to get more involved in the visual-arts community and fosters their professional aspirations. Every year, students apply for CAA’s travel grant to help them cover the costs of getting to the conference. In the past three years, though, CAA has only assisted about 30 percent of those who apply. Please help CAA’s student members to reap the benefits of the Annual Conference by increasing our travel-grant fund through Indiegogo, a crowd-funding website! Make a contribution yourself or share our campaign via Facebook, Twitter, or other social media by reposting this link: http://igg.me/p/230278?a=1266837. Every share increases the chance that we’ll meet our goal of raising $4,000!

We at CAA greatly appreciate your membership and commitment.

Working as a projectionist or room monitor at the 101st Annual Conference, taking place February 13–16, 2013, in New York, is a great way to save on conference expenses. All candidates must be US citizens or permanent US residents. CAA encourages students and emerging professionals—especially those in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut—to apply for service.

Projectionists

CAA seeks applications for projectionists for conference program sessions. Successful applicants are paid $12 per hour and receive complimentary conference registration. Projectionists are required to work a minimum of four 2½-hour program sessions, from Wednesday, February 13 to Saturday, February 16; they must also attend a training meeting on Wednesday morning at 7:30 AM. Projectionists must be familiar with digital projectors. Please send a brief letter of interest to Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs. Deadline: December 14, 2012.

Room Monitors

CAA needs room monitors for two Career Services mentoring programs (the Artists’ Portfolio Review and Career Development Mentoring), several offsite sessions, and other conference events, to be held from Wednesday, February 13 to Saturday, February 16; they must also attend a training meeting on Thursday morning at 7:30 AM. Successful candidates are paid $12 per hour and receive complimentary conference registration. Room monitors are required to work a minimum of eight hours, checking in participants and facilitating the work of the mentors. Please send a brief letter of interest to Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs. Deadline: December 14, 2012.

CAA, in partnership with Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC), will present its next National Professional-Development Workshop for Artists on Saturday, October 6, 2012. The one-day event, called “Hybrid Careers,” will explore in separate sessions the four steps of the creative endeavor: “Seeking,” “Solving,” “Making,” and “Reflecting.”

“Hybrid Careers” will take place on Saturday, October 6, from 8:15 AM to 12:00 NOON and again from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. There will be a lunch break from 12:00 NOON to 1:00 PM, and an open-studio reception for all participants for networking and sharing from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. The sessions take place at the Jean Vollum Drawing, Painting, and Photography Building on the OCAC campus at 8245 Southwest Barnes Road, Portland, OR 97225 (map). The workshop is $35. Each of the four sessions will be presented once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Workshop registrants must choose two sessions for the day.

The workshop will begin at 8:15 AM with check-in and a complimentary continental breakfast. The sessions start at 9:00 AM. “Seeking,” led by Katy Asher, an artist and alumna of Portland State University, and Carl Diehl, an artist and an instructor at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), will focus on means of sparking and expanding on flickers of inspiration. In “Solving,” participants will actively engage in determining theories or hypotheses of how to solve problems, guided by Susanna Hohmann, an instructor in the OCAC/PCNA graduate program in applied craft and design and a designer at Terrazign, along with Carly Mick, also of Terrazign. “Making,” led by Jake Sorenson, a sculptor and OCAC alumnus, and Brett Binford, co-owner of Mudsharks Studio, will explore the process and evolution of the conceptual object. Finally, Kate Bingaman-Burt, an artist, designer, and assistant professor at Portland State University, and Jeremy Pelley of the Official Manufacturing Company (OMFGCO) will lead “Reflecting,” which will encourage participants to reach a greater understanding of their likes and dislikes. From this knowledge, they can then learn to focus on projects that they can really believe in.

Read full descriptions of all four sessions.

Registration for the workshop is first-come, first-served. Because space is extremely limited, registration must be completed in advance; it will not be possible to register at the door. To pay by credit card, debit card, or PayPal, go to www.collegeart.org/registerportlandworkshop. Then contact Susan Schear at 973-482-1000 and indicate which two sessions you would like to attend. If paying by check, contact Susan Schear to affirm your registration and session selection. Then make your check payable to College Art Association and mail it to: Thomas Orr, Interim Dean, 8245 Southwest Barnes Road, Portland, OR 97225. Please include your name, complete mailing address, email, and phone number and also note “Hybrid Careers Workshop” on the outside of the envelope.

If you have any questions, please contact Susan Schear at 973-482-1000 and include your name, mailing address, email, and phone number in your voicemail or email.

Workshop Partners

Oregon College of Art and Craft is a creative community offering undergraduate degrees and certificates, graduate degrees, and continuing-education classes for adults and children.

Additional workshop partners are: Pacific Northwest College of Art; Official Manufacturing Company (OMFGCO); Vizwerks; Interior Design at Marylhurst University (IDMU); Mudsharks Studios; and Terrazign.

As a leading professional organization in the visual arts, the College Art Association serves the needs and interests of 12,000 individual and 2,000 institutional members. Founded in 1911, CAA publishes two scholarly journals in art history, an online reviews journal for books and exhibitions, a weekly email newsletter, and a website with news about the organization, its members, and the larger art and academic worlds. CAA also hosts an Annual Conference for 4,000 to 6,000 artists, scholars, and students, provides career services, and advocates the visual arts on a national level.

CAA offers Annual Conference Travel Grants to graduate students in art history and studio art and to international artists and scholars. In addition, the Getty Foundation has funded the second year of a program that enables twenty applicants from outside the United States to attend the 2013 Annual Conference in New York. Applicants may apply for more than one grant but can only receive a single award.

CAA Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant

CAA will award a limited number of $250 Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants to advanced PhD and MFA graduate students as partial reimbursement of travel expenses to attend the 101st Annual Conference, taking place February 13–16, 2013, in New York. To qualify for the grant, students must be current CAA members. Successful applicants will also receive a complimentary conference registration. Deadline: September 14, 2012.

CAA International Member Conference Travel Grant

CAA will award a limited number of $500 International Member Conference Travel Grants to artists and scholars from outside the United States as partial reimbursement of travel expenses to attend the 101st Annual Conference, taking place February 13–16, 2013, in New York. To qualify for the grant, applicants must be current CAA members. Successful applicants will also receive a complimentary conference registration. Deadline: September 14, 2012.

CAA International Travel Grant Program

The CAA International Travel Grant Program, generously supported by the Getty Foundation, provides funding to twenty art historians, museum curators, and artists who teach art history to attend the 101st Annual Conference, taking place February 13–16, 2013, in New York. The grant covers travel expenses, hotel accommodations, per diems, conference registrations, and one-year CAA memberships. For 2013, CAA will offer preconference meetings on February 11 and 12 for grant recipients to present and discuss their common professional interests and issues. Applicants do not need to be CAA members. Deadline extended: August 24, 2012.

Donate to the Annual Conference Travel Grants

CAA’s Annual Conference Travel Grants are funded solely by donations from CAA members—please contribute today. Charitable contributions are 100 percent tax deductible. CAA extends a warm thanks to those members who made voluntary contributions to this fund during the past twelve months.

Image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed—The Great Western Railway, 1844, oil on canvas, 35⅞ x 49 in. National Gallery, London (artwork in the public domain)

caa.reviews has just published the authors and titles of doctoral dissertations in art history and visual studies—both completed and in progress—from American and Canadian institutions for calendar year 2011. You may browse by chronological or geographic subject, such as Renaissance/Baroque Art, Japanese/Korean Art, or Contemporary Art, or by specific medium or genre, such as Performance Studies or Drawings/Prints/Photography/Works on Paper. Identified in each category are the student’s name, dissertation title, school, and adviser.

Each institution granting the PhD in art history and/or visual studies submits dissertation titles once a year to CAA for publication. The caa.reviews list also includes dissertations completed and in progress between 2002 and 2010, making basic information about their topics available through web searches.

CAA, in partnership with the San Diego Foundation and the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, will present its next National Professional-Development Workshop for Artists on Friday and Saturday, June 29–30, 2012. The two-day event, called “Business of the Arts for Visual Artists: ‘Brand You’ and ‘Marketing Yourself to Market Your Art,’” will explore strategies for launching, renewing, and sustaining a career in the arts.

“Brand You” will take place on Friday evening, June 29, 5:00–7:00 PM, and “Marketing Yourself to Market Your Art” is scheduled for Saturday, June 30, 8:30 AM–5:15 PM. Both sessions will be held at the San Diego Foundation, 2508 Historic Decatur Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92106.

The workshop kicks off on Friday evening with a wine-and-cheese networking reception, after which David Lecours, owner and creative director of Lecours Design, will deliver the keynote address, “Brand You.” His presentation will focus on how artists can determine their unique strengths and individual voices, apply them in the marketplace, and promote a personal brand for success.

On Saturday, Ashley McLean Emenegger, an art consultant, independent curator, writer, visual artist, and career coach, will present a full-day session entitled, “Marketing Yourself to Market Your Art.” Participants will learn how to identify and reach the target audience for their work. A continental breakfast and boxed lunch, included in the registration fee, will be served. Following the workshop, the San Diego Foundation will host a wine-and-cheese networking reception for participants.

The workshop is $15 for Friday only; $25 for Saturday only; and $35 for both days. Participants attending both days will receive the second edition of Business of Art: An Artist’s Guide to Profitable Self-Employment. A limited number of stipends are available for those who register for both days; please contact Susan Schear, CAA national workshop project consultant, at 973-482-1000. You may pay by credit card, debit card, or PayPal. If paying by check, write it out to College Art Association and mail to: Meryl Zwanger, San Diego Foundation, 2508 Historic Decatur Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92106; include your name, complete mailing address, email, and phone number. Please specify if your registration is for Friday only, for Saturday only, or for both Friday and Saturday.

CAA’s National Professional Development Workshops for Artists, which focus on supporting visual artists in underserved areas, are sustained by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

Workshop Partners

Founded in 1975, the San Diego Foundation promotes and increases effective and responsible charitable giving. It manages more than $560 million in assets, almost half of which reside in endowment funds that extend the impact of today’s gifts to future generations. Since its inception, the foundation has granted more than $700 million to San Diego’s nonprofit community. The CAA workshop, cosponsored by the foundation, is part of Innovation through the Arts, a multifaceted, multiyear initiative launched in 2010 to help San Diego realize its potential as a center of creativity and innovation. The initiative is achieved through three primary programs that together seek to advance San Diego’s artistic community by supporting professional artists, nonprofit arts and culture organizations, and strategic efforts that increase arts education in the city’s K–12 schools. Advised by the foundation’s Arts and Culture Working Group, Innovation through the Arts is made possible by the James Irvine Foundation and other generous philanthropic organizations and individuals.

The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture advises the mayor and city council on promoting, encouraging, and increasing support for the region’s artistic and cultural assets. The commission also helps to integrate arts and culture into community life and to showcase San Diego as an international tourist destination. Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, the commission has been officially designated by the City of San Diego as a CAC State/Local Partner since the early 1980s.

As a leading professional organization in the visual arts, the College Art Association serves the needs and interests of 12,000 individual and 2,000 institutional members. Founded in 1911, CAA publishes two scholarly journals in art history, an online reviews journal for books and exhibitions, a weekly email newsletter, and a website with news about the organization, its members, and the larger art and academic worlds. CAA also hosts an Annual Conference for 4,000 to 6,000 artists, scholars, and students, provides career services, and advocates the visual arts on a national level.

CAA has begun accepting applications from MFA and PhD students for its Professional-Development Fellowships in Art History and Visual Arts. For the current cycle, CAA will award grants of $5,000 each to outstanding students who will receive their MFA and PhD degrees in calendar year 2013.

Fellows also receive a free one-year CAA membership and complimentary registration to the 101st Annual Conference in New York, taking place February 13–16, 2013. Honorable mentions, given at the discretion of the jury, earn a free one-year CAA membership and complimentary conference registration.

CAA’s fellowship program supports promising artists and art historians who are enrolled in MFA and PhD programs nationwide. Awards are intended to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio. CAA believes a grant of this kind, without contingencies, can best facilitate the transition between graduate studies and professional careers.

Please visit the Fellowship section for more information and to download the 2013 MFA and PhD Application Forms. The deadline for applications is Monday, October 1, 2012. Winners will be announced in January 2013.